Quotes about Values
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
— Theodore Roosevelt
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
— Theodore Roosevelt
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
— Theodore Roosevelt
To educate a person without teaching ethics is to create a menace to society.
— Theodore Roosevelt
But we must keep steadily in mind that no people were ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I do not like to see young Christians with shoulders that slope like a champagne bottle.
— Theodore Roosevelt
If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.
— Theodore Roosevelt
They will forget times of distress. Rough garments will become brilliant while silks and satins lose their sheen. The humble cottage will be more desirable than a palatial home. Patience will be more honorable than power. Obedience will count more than knowledge.
— Thomas a Kempis
It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Hence it is predicated chiefly of the virtuous; then of the pleasant; and lastly of the useful.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.
— Tony Evans